Look at the face of your wife or your youngest child. PSB more interesting than that?

Well said!!

“No lists of things to be done. The day providential to itself. The hour. There is no later. This is later. All things of grace and beauty such that one holds them to one's heart have a common provenance in pain. Their birth in grief and ashes.” - Cormac McCarthy, The Road

Learn this from the waters:in mountain clefts and chasms,loud gush the streamlets,but great rivers flow silently.- Sutta Nipata 3.725

I try not to harm things..If I walk down the street after rain I pick worms up from the pavement and put them on soil...I think there have to be limits though. I think if there is no real alternative to killing wasp grubs I would do it, and I dont think I would lose sleep.

I didn't see anything about fertilized eggs.....so I guess they are ok for monks....is that right?Chicken and duck embryos are eaten in SE Asia (a baby chicken or duck still in the egg) and I suppose that monks can eat them too but I don't know for sure.chownah